Newton and empiricism / edited by Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biener, Zvi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.

Newton, Isaac.

Empiricism--History--17th century.

Empiricism.

Empiricism--History--18th century.

Philosophy and science--History--17th century.

Philosophy and science.

Philosophy and science--History--18th century.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume of ten original papers by a leading team of international scholars explores Isaac Newton's relation to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Roots of Newton's Experimental Method

1 Empiricism as a Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy / Stephen Gaukroger Gaukroger, Stephen 15

2 Constructing Natural Historical Facts: Baconian Natural History in Newton's First Paper on Light and Colors / Dana Jalobeanu Jalobeanu, Dana 39

3 Vision, Color, and Method in Newton's Opticks / Philippe Hamou Hamou, Philippe 66

Part 2 Newton and "Empiricist" Philosophers

4 Locke's Metaphysics and Newtonian Metaphysics / Lisa Downing Downing, Lisa 97

5 Locke and Newton on Space and Time and Their Sensible Measures / Geoffrey Gorham Gorham, Geoffrey, Edward Slowik Slowik, Edward 119

6 Newtonian Explanatory Reduction and Hume's System of the Science / Yoram Hazony Hazony, Yoram 138

7 Enlarging the Bounds of Moral Philosophy: Newton's Method and Hume's Science of Man / Tamás Demeter Demeter, Tamás 171

Part 3 Newtonian Method In 18th, 19th, and 20th-Century Science

8 Living Force at Leiden: De Volder, 's Gravesande, and the Reception of Newtonianism / Tammy Nyden Nyden, Tammy 207

9 On the Role of Newtonian Analogies in Eighteenth-Century Life Science: Vitalism and Provisionally Inexplicable Explicative Devices / Charles Wolfe Wolfe, Charles 223

10 Closing the Loop: Testing Newtonian Gravity, Then and Now / George E. Smith Smith, George E. 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199337095

0199337098

OCLC:

870290918